Wild Mana in Windows 8

From what I could figure out so far, Wild Mana doesn't run on Windows 8.

Is there a way to make this work anyway ?
If someone could tell me how to achieve this, I'd appreciate it very much.

Thanks in advance.

Judging by the amount of reads but the zero responses there's no solution to this issue so far ...........

I dont use win 8, sorry....

But can you play civ4 bts? If you can play it, you should be able to play MoM...

well I'm not sure I was even consciously aware that windows 8 was released...

esvath said:

I dont use win 8, sorry....

But can you play civ4 bts? If you can play it, you should be able to play MoM...

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Civ4bts doesn't run, either.

Here's the thing : I recently bought a laptop ( for the first time ever ) so I could take Wild Mana with me on travels, but all these new machines come with Windows 8 and frankly, I had no idea windows 8 would let me down. Had no problems in the past going through the different windows versions.

I was just hoping someone would be able to make it work anyway ...
no such luck so far.
The only solution seems to be to downgrade to windows 7 but I'm very hestitant to do that, as I think this might mess up the entire system as windows 8 is so different from windows 7 and I don't want to take that risk just to allow me to play 1 game ...

AFAIK, you can go to start menu ala win7 from win8. You might try to start civ4 bts from that menu?

Edit: I searched the forum and found that many people can play civ4 bts and its mods in win8 just fine.

Here is one example: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=479375&highlight=Win8

esvath said:

AFAIK, you can go to start menu ala win7 from win8. You might try to start civ4 bts from that menu?

Edit: I searched the forum and found that many people can play civ4 bts and its mods in win8 just fine.

Here is one example: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=479375&highlight=Win8

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Thanks for your help, Esvath.

I got Wild Mana running on Windows 8 since last Friday.
It took me some time searching and trying but in the end it is rather simple.

Right click the shortcut that takes you to WM ( or Civ4 )
Select "Properties"
Then click the "compatibility" tab
Then tick the option to "run this program in compatibility mode for :"
and select "windows 7" from the dropdown menu.
Click "apply" and "ok"

That's it.

Now I can take my favourite PC game with me wherever I go